Just going off topic a bit, it is extremely frustrating that when snow does fall circulation is totally halted here. It only takes a relatively light snowfall but as I said salt is not spread soon enough. Lorries are immediately told to park up, usually in and around towns immediately narrowing roads to half their width. That makes it difficult for ordinary traffic to circulate and worse grit and salt lorries to get out. Affected motorways almost always close with abandoned vehicles strewn across the carriageway and nearby villagehalls are turned into makeshift shelters for the night. The recovery from that then becomes a tedious and drawn out affair.
Luckily it dpesn't happen very often but the attitude is it's always the fault of the weather, how dare it surprise innocent travellers!
Sorry, rant over. BOT